Celestrialism is a philosophy which strives to encompass every Mormon
teaching and personal revelation, add the best principles and
practices that the world has to offer, so that we can
work actively toward earth-life godliness. In other words, we don't want
to wait for the afterlife in order to attain the blessings of Celestial glory,
and we have faith that we can do it right here and now.

Materialism, Spirit, and Physicality

It is first necessary to push aside the notion of materialism as greed, which
is a shallow interpretation at best. The term materialism refers to a
philosophy which states that "matter is all that exists", which fact is
consistent with Mormon teachings, since "all spirit is matter, but
it is more fine" (D&C 131:7).
As for the physical world, clearly physical matter is matter as well as
spiritual matter.
In order to distinguish Mormon teaching from other forms of materialism,
celestrialism prefers the term physicality to refer to a materialism that
encompasses both the physical and the spiritual worlds. Other forms of materialism
can be viewed as a rejection of the spirit. This notion of physicality
opens the door to the best insights from our most ruthlessly materialistic
scientists. It is simply amazing how much of modern science agrees with
Mormon teachings, both historical and modern. Some examples follow.

Eternality and infinity

Calculus has shown that an approach to infinity can provide a more accurate
description of the physical world. This notion of infinity is constrained
by a limit, exactly because the 1/0 operator is considered "out of bounds"
or "undefined". In spite of this apparent restriction,
calculus underlies most of the greatest science that
has been produced since Isaac Newton. Celestrialism shares this view of
infinity, which is best thought of as an operator denoting a very large number.
It is obvious that this concept of the infinite underlies any notion of the
eternal.
Eternal life then, or living as a god, is having every power, knowledge,
longevity, means,
and so forth as required in order to maintain oneself in the path towards
greater such, eternal progression.

The term eternality is specially defined in Celestrialism to denote
this concept which underlies the notion of eternal life and exaltation, as
well as the fact that we are co-eternal with God. It also applies to the
universe in which we find ourselves, for that is our context where ever we are.
This co-eternal universe is also the container for God's creations, the
heavens, the many worlds, our physical and spiritual bodies.
Thus, eternality does not equate to an
ideal infinite, but rather to a power that is vastly large with respect
to a certain order of creation, the stars and galaxies that pepper our skies,
for example.

A being who is actively engaged in eternal progress by definition
is not in posession of "all power", "all knowledge", or an "infinite progeny",
since no limit is implied by the terms.
The very concept of allness loses reputability in light of eternality.
God is a human being who attained a close approximation of these ideals,
so that from
our perspective he is as good as eternal. Yet this same being, who
made heaven and earth continues to progress, and he invites us
to become like him. Since we too are human beings and co-eternal with him, we
are able to obtain our own infinity operators, as it were; share in his
capacities, and join him in divine glory.
Eternality is thus not an impossible, undefined, or out of bounds state, but
it is something that God has already accomplished as a human being, and we can
do it too.

Bearing function, upwinging

The questions become when and how to make this progress toward eternality
happen sooner and faster. In fact, Celestrialism must imply that we as
God's seed are able to obtain the fruits of eternality in earth life. At
least we can practice the best possible temple mormonism. Work hard as if to
obtain all power, the essence of being actively engaged in righteous pursuits
(D&C27:27).
Seek the best knowledge
(AofF13),
with the understanding that any knowledge
is within our reach, and "whatever principle of intelligence. we attain unto
in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection"
(D&C130:18).
Live healthily with longevity in sight as on the path to
everlasting life. Seek the blessings of polygamy,
and eternal lives from God,
so that you can enjoy all of these benefits now. By approaching ideals,
you demonstrate your desire to be like God, and it gets results. Moreover it
follows therefore that we will have "so much the advantage in the world to come"
(D&C130:19), and we
exuberantly attain as many of the blessings of celestial glory in earth life as we can.

DNA Intelligence isomorphism

A striking feature of Celestrialism is thinking big. For example, we
construct a continuum from information through self-knowledge to intelligence,
this kernel of intelligence is what makes us most fundamentally immortal and co-eternal
with God and the universe. A crucial observation which derives from this
construction is that DNA and intelligence share fundamentally and overlap in
this continuum. DNA is a set of instructions for the construction of a
physical body in the context of the cell and the physical world. It is likely
that intelligence functions similarly for the construction of a spritual body,
so that we would have spiritual DNA, spiritual cells, and a spritual context or
world for the construction the spiritual body. In other words,
there is a clear isomorphism between the spriritual and physical worlds, which
is informed by our intelligence. It is our intelligence which gives rise to
them in a context of mothers, worlds, and gods; our peers in co-eternality.

As peers in co-eternality, we share in the capacities of the God. Our
capacities arise from
the kind of being that we are, intelligences expressing a physical and a
sprirtual component. As human beings and children of our Heavenly
Father and Mother, we possess an inate intelligence, which likely encompasses
the genetic code of our DNA. It is evident from the teachings of
Mormonism that our intelligences preceded the creation of our spritual bodies,
so that our intelligence also likely comprises the fundamental expression of the
person that we are. Procreation is the most
obvious example of how we share in God's capacity to make human bodies. Mothers
provide the context for the generation of these bodies, which are necessary
for our interaction with the physical world.
Celestrialism demands that we seek the highest blessings
that are obtainable in earth life, our time in this physical realm.

Just as the DNA provides the instruction set for the construction of these physical
bodies in the given context, it is likely that intelligence also encompassess a
spiritual DNA, as it were, which encodes for the construction of a spritual
body in the context of the spirit world. Our spritual bodies provide an
expression of our intelligence that can act in the spirit world.

Given the fact that our bodies and minds share these characteristics with
that of God, we bear physical human seed and so likewise we have the
capacity to bear
spiritual seed. In the context of Celestrialism, these blessings are
to be sought after in earthlife, and the spiritual seed which we
bear now are presumably forerunners into their own premortality. We too
as the vessels of God bear spirits which can choose an earthlife, just
as we did.

Just as we may participate in spiritual creation, we may also partake of
the spirit and intelligence of our mortal and post-mortal loved ones.
The sealing ordinance makes our link with them firm.